Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation

Winner of the 2017 Eisner Award in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category

2017 Prose Awards Honorable Mention, Media & Cultural Studies

Over the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed most often as male, heterosexual, white, and able—bodied. Today, a time when many of these characters are billion—dollar global commodities, there are more female superheroes, more queer superheroes, more superheroes of color, and more disabled superheroes—but not many more.

Superwomen investigates ho...